#yume kitasei

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really loved this!!!!! #very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection #love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it? #(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever) #no romance #(there’s side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it) #emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !! #i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that... #why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up? #like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but there’s not a single flashback of #when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it... #(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the - #eugenics around that is iffy to say the least) #but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird. #also there’s supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points #Also! I love the cover. I can’t find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..) #also: bird facts!

[charliejaneanders]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/14/best-science-fiction-fantasy/

Here's my roundup of the 10 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2023, over in the @washingtonpost!

These are the books I couldn't stop talking about all year, the ones that I wanted to press into people's hands so we could geek out together.

Paywall-free link: https://wapo.st/3FZuxsk

#books #writing #science fiction #yume kitasei #kelly link #silvia moreno garcia #sl huang #mona awad

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 072

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

“Sometimes there is one moment where you can go to the moon, or Mars, or do a mission like this, and at that moment you have a choice—you can go or you can stay."

#books #2023 reads #the deep sky #yume kitasei #booklr #2022 reads

[ninsiana0]

Read THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei if you love locked room mysteries, space travel, climate change, artificial intelligence, duel narratives, competitive schools, class dynamics, reproductive justice, best friends, desperate decisions, virtual reality, mother-daughter relationships & birds.

#The Deep Sky #Yume Kitasei #read this if #book review #book recs #readers of tumblr #readers on tumblr #rw #read more #i read books

[ejheart]

my fan art for the deep sky by yume kitasei. it was so good! i was moved to tears on the last page (also where this line was from) which i don’t know if i remember ever being moved to tears by a book?

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #booklr #fan art #books #procreate #illustration

[oracleofmadness]

This book is absolutely beautiful. This is something that was created with the utmost care and love, and I will not be forgetting this anytime soon.

This book deals with so many real issues in such a real way. I'm just absolutely blown away by the impact this had had on me. It's something very relatable, and I definitely recommend this!

Out July 18, 2023!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #book review #currently reading #read #bookblogger #reading #sci fi writing #science fiction #the deep sky #yume kitasei

[bloodmaarked]

➸ reading list

just added:

the battle drum, saara el-arifi

malice, keigo higashino

the missing american, kwei quartey

your house will pay, steph cha

the firm, john grisham

how can i help you, laura sims

never sleep, fred van lente

the deep sky, yume kitasei

vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers, jessie q. santo

the murder at the vicarage, agatha christie

#the battle drum #saara el-arifi #malice #keigo higashino #the missing american #kwei quartey #your house will pay #steph cha #the firm #john grisham #how can i help you #laura sims #never sleep #fred van lente #the deep sky #yume kitasei #vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers #jessie q santo #the murder at the vicarage #agatha christie #reading list #tbr #bookblr #booklr

[rhetoricandlogic]

DNF at 27%.

This is the most misogynistic book I've read in a long time, female Asian author not withstanding.

A generation ship populated by 31-year old (10 of which were in cryo) teenage-acting broodmares. The concept of building and launching a generation ship with an all female population, the sole purpose of who is to produce the next generation is hilarious to me. Seriously? We don't have the science to do this in vitro? At the target place?

The target place: Planet X. It doesn't have a name, it's in no named galaxy, starsystem or universe. We don't know the speed we're traveling in, nor the direction, nor the distance. Nothing. No sci-fi recognisable, except the setting is on a space ship.

Which then has a part of it explode. The impact throws it off-course. Instead of dealing with the catastrophe, we get infantile quabbling, escapism into virtual realities, indoctrination in terms of "only motherhood is really desirable - who can't breed is worthless" and and MC full of adolescent insecurities, which are enhanced by alternating current-time chapters with 20 year old personal history. And a lot of (American) Bird Facts; the only redeeming aspect of this book, even if the rest of the world is not familiar with the species.

The use of inclusive pronouns is sometimes so horribly executed that complete sentences make no sense, even if read repeatedly. Guys, guy - I said it before and I'll say it again: if you can't implement (neo)pronouns in a way that enhances the the reading, like Ancillary Justice does, just skip that part.

Also: this is marketed as adult. *insertincredulouslaughter*

#Yume Kitasei #The Deep Sky #mahreviews #long post

[tigger8900]

The Deep Sky, by Yume Kitasei

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In a future where all climate measures have failed, the nations of Earth have banded together to launch an intergalactic mission, one last hope to carry the best of humanity away from its mistakes and into the stars. In the lead-up to launch, children train and compete against one another for the honor of representing their country in the mission. But in the future, a bomb has exploded on board The Phoenix, throwing the entire mission into jeopardy. And Asuka, who only stepped in at the last moment as a replacement crew member, might be the only person on board who can discover the true identity of the saboteur.

This was an incredible debut! I loved the dual plotlines, switching back and forth between Asuka's childhood spent at the training school and the increasingly-dire situation on the ship. There was no real suspense in the former — we knew who made in on board the ship and who didn't — but where the flashbacks truly shone was in getting to know the characters, leaving our attention free to tackle the mystery plot.

Of course, as a science fiction novel, this book has themes, ranging from difficult mother-daughter relationships to musings over multi-racial identity, the struggle of trying to collaborate when every person resides in their own reality, and even the heavy question of whether it's better to invest in a moonshot or save those precious resources to try to salvage what we can on planet Earth. I will warn prospective readers that it's heavy on questions and light on answers. The main character isn't going to explain it to you. Rather, you're given the ideas, and left to mull them over on your own.

Something I thought this book did phenomenally was how the generation part of the ship was handled. I was delighted to realize that Kitasei had taken something that could easily have been super TERF-y and made it inclusive. The idea was that the ship was crewed only by people who could give birth, so as to maximize the genetic diversity while minimizing the number of bodies. Obviously, the ability to get pregnant has great importance in the narrative. But the crew consists not only of cis women, but also nonbinary AFAB people and trans men. Even so there are some troubling elements with this, but Kitasei seems aware of them, spending a not-insignificant portion of the narrative pondering the value of a crew member who's struggling with unexpected infertility.

The author has a second book out next year, The Stardust Grail. I'm certainly going to be keeping an eye out for it!

#books #book review #the deep sky #yume kitasei #science fiction #lgbtq

[sarah-maclean-completist]

Book Riot: The best books we read: July-September 2023

#sarah maclean #r.f. kuang #travis baldree #sally rippin #yume kitasei #carlene bauer #dahlia adler

[benedictusantonius]

[2023|74] The Deep Sky (2023) written by Yume Kitasei

#the deep sky #deep sky #yume kitasei #books2023 #i really liked this

[aroaessidhe]

it's definitely a space-book reading month for me! looking forward to this one!

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #laya talks

[charliejaneanders]

https://wapo.st/3JYmoqw

My new SFF book review column in the @washingtonpost is about four books that will help you cope with the fanatics in our world. Whether it's a cult of personality around a toxic billionaire, or religious zealots, these books will help.

Paywall-free link: https://wapo.st/3JYmoqw

There's so much more I could have said about these books. The Deep Sky does some really fascinating stuff with VR/AR, which I totally didn't have space to talk about. Asuka's virtual world has a glitch that allows her to see other people's virtual worlds, which is really cool.

Also, C.M. Alongi has been saying on Instagram that she read my novel The City in the Middle of the Night after she'd already finished Citadel, and didn't realize how similar the two novels are. And they definitely have a lot in common! They are in conversation delightfully.

Citadel tackles some of the same themes/ideas as The City in the Middle of the Night, but takes them in a very different direction. And in some ways, Alongi's way works better!

There's a special pleasure in reading a book that takes ideas that I've played with in the past, but improves upon my own approach to them.

Citadel explores some of the same territory as my own City, but goes places I never would have thought of in a million years.

The Saint of Bright Doors gets so much weirder than I can explain without major spoilers, and the "bright doors" of the title turn out to have a really fascinating explanation that dovetails with the cult-leader shenanigans in the book.

This book features one of my favorite examples of a horny underachieving protagonist, a type of character I've been seeing a lot lately.

And Counterweight sort of reminded me of the Matrix films??? Not in terms of plot, but the way that action/thriller beats slowly dissolve into just long discussions about philosophy and artificial sentience.

#books #reading #book reviews #book review #science fiction #fantasy #c.m. alongi #yume kitasei #vajra chandrasekere #djuna

[scififr]

The Deep Sky, par Yume Kitasei (Flatiron Books, juillet 2023)

Avant que les catastrophes écologiques et la bêtise humaine aient définitivement raison de nous un vaisseau Arche est envoyé vers un monde lointain. Son équipage est essentiellement composé de jeunes femmes exceptionnelle, sélectionnées et formées depuis leur préadolescence. Lors d’une phase de réveil, nécessaire pour la maintenance mais surtout pour commencer à procréer (d’où les jeunes femmes), le vaisseau subit un attentat qui l’écarte de sa trajectoire…

Un « young-adult » pas si mal. L’autrice décrit pas mal d’idées spéculatives assez pertinentes et s’attache à décrire assez profondément ses héroïnes en alternant les chapitres entre le présent et le passé. Bon, le scénario n’est pas très original, ni dans son déroulement, ni dans sa résolution, et l’ensemble est un peu Bisounours, mais cela reste cohérent.

#speculative fiction #Yume Kitasei #14

[wttnblog]

10 July Book Releases To Add To Your TBR

Happy July, everyone! As we launch into true summer, I have so many exciting books to share with you. This month truly has such a wide selection of genres and content to choose from; there will definitely be something on this list for you. Whether you read 1 book a year or 100, it’s always fun to keep track of what’s new in the publishing industry, and I hope this article helps you discover new…

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#beth nguyen #books to read #by Jocelyn #charlotte mendelson #july 2023 book releases #july book releases #karen m mcmanus #laura lippman #malavika kanna #megan collins #new books #New Releases #ruth madievsky #sara desai #vanessa riley #yume kitasei

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Deep Sky: A Novel

By Yume Kitasei.

Design by Jonathan Bush.

#The Deep Sky #Yume Kitasei #Jonathan Bush #animals #books #book covers #birds